The Bungaku Shoujo aka Book Girl series is very popular in Japan. As with most things, once the book series ended its popularity slowly waned, but to a connoisseur of books this series is great. The Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime by Mizuki Nomura will be the first book released of this series in […]
Month: April 2016
Learn Japanese
I have mentioned several times before that one of my goals was to learn Japanese. I have spent several hundred dollars trying to teach myself this language and have failed multiple times so with that said, here is what I bought and what I would actually recommend keeping. Textbooks Genki I Series. Yes, this always […]
My Hero Academia
Currently in Japan, superhero manga is popular. One-Punch Man and My Hero Academia are leading the charge in this category. This series started on Weekly Shonen Jump in the month of July 2014 and is currently one of the top new series in Jump. 14-year-old Izuku Midoriya has a dream, ever since he was a kid and […]
One-Punch Man Review
One-Punch Man is my first manga review posted on this site. I thought about doing classics like Naruto, One Piece or Bleach but in the end, I thought I should go with something more current. The classics will be coming, I promise you that. Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that One-Punch […]
Tokyo Destination: Akihabara, Otaku Paradise
If you have watch anime, read manga or light novels, then you will almost of certainly heard of Akihabara. After WWII, Akihabara had the nickname ‘Electric Town’ and was known as the place go for cheap electronics. To this day, you can still find cheap electronics, but now it is most well known for all […]
Japan Tours
During the time I was researching hotels in Japan, I mentioned to a co-worker about the trip I was planning to take to Japan and right away he got excited saying he wanted to go. He won’t, not because I rejected him, but because he is moving across the country this summer. One of the […]
Travel in Japan
Japan has the greatest railway system in the world. It is famed for its reliability, punctuality and is also known for their famous bullet trains. Shinjuku Train Station has 200 exits and is the busiest train station in the world with 3-4 million passing through it daily. In comparison, Grand Central Station in New York […]
Adventuring with Japanese Hotels
Now that I had mostly figured out the airplane situation is was time to look at where I was going to stay while in Japan. I was immediately deluged with a bewildering variety of options. Budget hotels, business hotels, luxury hotels, hostels, ryokan, Airbnb, couch-surfing and even something called a capsule hotel. Seeing all these […]
Travel Reward Credit Cards
So in my last post, I mentioned how I began exploring how to find cheaper airplane tickets to Japan. What I found was that 8 out of 10 google articles was about the ‘travel hack’ of credit card mile points. People like Scott Keyes, Nomadic Matt, and several others have become famous for being able […]
The Trouble with Airplane Tickets
After settling the budget, the next thing I did was research airline ticket prices. I went to the usual online suspects, Kayak, Trip-advisor, Orbitz, etc and looked them up. Right off the bat, I found a problem, you couldn’t pre-order tickets further out than 330 days. So I decided to do the next best thing, […]